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12:50 PM ET, July 24, 2006

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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Rice meets with Lebanon PM in Beirut  —  WASHINGTON - In a surprise visit to Beirut, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised the beleaguered prime minister of Lebanon on Monday for his courage in struggling to contain the fighting between the Hezbollah militia and Israel.
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Washington Post:
Rice Makes Unannounced Visit to Beirut  —  BEIRUT, July 24 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced stop in Beirut Monday in an effort to shore up Lebanon's fragile government, beleaguered by nearly two weeks of relentless bombing raids that have wrecked much of the country's infrastructure …
Valerie Olander / Detroit News:
Kerry knocks Bush on handling of Mideast conflict  —  U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D- Mass., who was in town Sunday to help Gov. Jennifer Granholm campaign for her re-election bid, took time to take a jab at the Bush administration for its lack of leadership in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict.
CNN:
Rice in Beirut for talks with Lebanese premier  —  Secretary of state: Conditions must be right before cease-fire  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced stop in Beirut on Monday to meet with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora about the crisis in the Middle East.
Discussion: The Mahablog and PoliBlog
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   New, Improved John Kerry — Now With Even Less Substance!
Arlen Specter / Washington Post:
Surveillance We Can Live With  —  President Bush's electronic surveillance program has been a festering sore on our body politic since it was publicly disclosed last December.  Civil libertarians, myself included, have insisted that the program must be subject to judicial review to ensure compliance with the Fourth Amendment.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Dialing for Spines...And the Constitution  —  Last week Pachacutec asked all of the Roots project members to reach out to their senators to find out how they intended to vote on Arlen Specter's revision of FISA legislation.  [If you haven't yet joined the Roots Project, you should] (see UPDATE below).
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Specter instructs us to be grateful to the President  —  Sen. Arlen Specter has an Op-Ed in this morning's Washington Post which attempts to justify his proposed FISA legislation — legislation which, at its core, renders legal the President's lawbreaking and cedes to the President the right …
A.L. / The Anonymous Liberal:
Arlen Specter Displays His Near Total Ignorance of Basic Constitutional Law  —  Senator Arlen Specter has penned an op-ed in Monday's Washington Post defending the "compromise" surveillance bill that he announced last week.  Assuming the piece reflects Specter's genuine views on this subject …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:   Proof Positive That Arlen Specter Does Not Read Balkinization
Confederate Yankee:   The Silence of the Informed  —  Arlen Specter has written …
Amos Harel / Associated Press:
11 IDF soldiers wounded in clashes with Hezbollah  —  Infantry soldiers from the Golani Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces entered the southern Lebanese village of Bint Jbail on Monday afternoon, after 11 soldiers were wounded clashes with Hezbollah near the village earlier in the day.
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Pakistan Expanding Nuclear Program  —  Plant Underway Could Generate Plutonium for 40 to 50 Bombs a Year, Analysts Say  —  Pakistan has begun building what independent analysts say is a powerful new reactor for producing plutonium, a move that, if verified, would signal a major expansion …
Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
Blasted by a missile on the road to safety  —  Family ordered to flee were targeted because they were driving minivan  —  The ambulanceman gave Ali the job of keeping his mother alive.  The 12-year-old did what he could.  "Mama, mama, don't go to sleep," he sobbed, gently patting her face beneath her chin.
Discussion: Harry's Place
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Nicholas Blanford / Lebanon Daily Star:   Help Lebanon.  Send a letter to your government representative.
Cal Perry / CNN:
Four children and the cost of war  —  TYRE, Lebanon (CNN) — The last time I sat down to write something, it was about the cost of war.  As I looked ahead to the coming days, the last words I wrote were: Who will die?  —  Today, I found out.  —  Standing in front of this 8-year-old boy lying …
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Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Civilian Toll Mounts in Lebanon Conflict
Discussion: New York Times and Israel Matzav
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
'Chickenhawk'  —  ``IT'S TOUCHING that you're so concerned about the military in Iraq," a reader in Wyoming e-mails in response to one of my columns on the war.  ``But I have a suspicion you're a phony.  So tell me, what's your combat record?  Ever serve?"
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
U.S. Cuts in Africa Aid Said to Hurt War on Terror  —  WASHINGTON, July 22 — The Bush administration and Congress have slashed millions of dollars of military aid to African nations in recent years, moves that Pentagon officials and senior military commanders say have undermined American efforts …
Eric Pfeiffer / Washington Times:
Democrats pledge to fight Bolton nod  —  Senate Democrats have promised a "bruising fight" over the administration's nomination of John R. Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.  —  Mr. Bolton's nomination was sent out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year without …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Legal Group Faults Bush for Ignoring Parts of Bills  —  WASHINGTON, July 23 — The American Bar Association said Sunday that President Bush was flouting the Constitution and undermining the rule of law by claiming the power to disregard selected provisions of bills that he signed.
Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:
Kos, Hezbollah, and Israel  —  WHEN THE BOMBS began to fall in the Middle East, the Daily Kos had a problem.  And the Daily Kos's problem could soon be the Democratic party's problem.  —  On the one hand, one of the most solid blocks of support for the Democratic party is America's Jewish community.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
'It Looked Weird and Felt Wrong'  —  From its first days in Iraq in April 2003, the Army's 4th Infantry Division made an impression on soldiers from other units — the wrong one.  —  "We slowly drove past 4th Infantry guys looking mean and ugly," recalled Sgt. Kayla Williams …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Whiskey Bar
 
 
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Mike Allen / Time:
Into the Fray  —  After years of pulling away from Mideast diplomacy …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
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